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Utah deserves a way to eliminate the state sales tax on grocery store food that doesn’t threaten education funding. The Utah Legislature passed a bill (<a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0054.html">HB54</a>) that purports to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries, but it only takes effect if voters in November 2024 approve a measure (<a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SJR010.html">SJR10</a>) that would severely weaken the school funding guarantees in our state Constitution. ....
Letter: It is time to clean the darn air By David Carrier | The Public Forum | April 25, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Because current drought conditions in the Southwest are worse than any springtime in the past 21 years, the state of Utah is facing a potentially devastating wildfire season. Ultimately, this situation is a harbinger of our future of megadroughts as a result of climate change. It’s easy to blame the fossil fuel companies that have suppressed and misrepresented the science of climate change for decades while lobbying against regulation, but that lets the rest of us off the hook. You and I have done our part to get us into this mess, and we have a responsibility to try to get us out of it. ....